Research Articles

Keene, C.S. and Bucci, D.J. (in press) Neurotoxic lesions of retrosplenial cortex disrupt both signaled and unsignalled contextual fear conditioning.  Behavioral Neuroscience.

Keene, C.S, and Bucci, D.J. (2008) Involvement of the retrosplenial cortex in processing multiple conditioned stimuli.  Behavioral Neuroscience, 122, 651-658.

Keene, C.S. and Bucci, D.J. (2008) Contributions of the retrosplenial and posterior parietal cortices to cue-specific and contextual fear conditioning.  Behavioral Neuroscience, 122, 89-97.

Bucci, D.J., Hopkins, M.E., Nunez, A.A., Breedlove, S.M., Sisk, C., and Nigg, J.T. (2008) Effects of sex hormones on associative learning in the spontaneously hypertensive rat.  Physiology and Behavior, 93, 651-657.

Bucci, D.J., Hopkins, M.E., Keene, C.S., Sharma, M., and Orr, L.E. (2008) Sex differences in learning and inhibition in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Behavioural Brain Research, 187, 27-32.

Bucci, D.J. and MacLeod, J.E. (2007) Changes in neural activation during a surprise-induced enhancement of attention. European Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 2669-2676.

Keene, C.S. and Bucci, D.J. (2007) Automated measure of conditioned orienting behavior in rats.  Behavior Research Methods, 39(2), 303-308.

Bucci, D.J. and Falls, W.A. (2007) An undergraduate neuroscience seminar based on the annual meeting of the society for neuroscience. Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education, 5(2), A49-A52.

MacLeod, J.E., DeLeo, J., Hickey, W., Ahles, T.A., Saykin, A.J., Bucci, D.J. (2007) Cancer chemotherapy impairs contextual but not cued fear conditioning in rats. Behavioural Brain Research, 181, 168-172.

Chess, A.C., Simoni, M.K., Alling, T.E., and Bucci, D.J. (2007) Elevations of endogenous kynurenic acid produce spatial working memory deficits.  Schizophrenia Bulletin, 33(3), 797-804.

MacLeod, J.E., Potter, A.S., Simoni, M.K., and Bucci, D.J. (2006) Nicotine administration enhances conditioned inhibition in rats. European Journal of Pharmacology, 551, 76-79.

Arenos, J.D., Musty, R.E., and Bucci, D.J. (2006) Blockade of cannabinoid CB1 receptors alters contextual learning and memory.  European Journal of Pharmacology, 539, 177-183.

Chess, A.C. and Bucci, D.J. (2006) Increased levels of cerebral kynurenic acid alter stimulus processing and conditioned responding in rats.  Behavioural Brain Research, 170, 326-332.

Weltzin, M., Zhao, H., Drew, K.L., and Bucci, D.J. (2006) Arousal from hibernation alters contextual learning and memory.  Behavioural Brain Research, 167, 128-133.

Bucci, D.J. and Chess, A.C. (2005) Specific changes in conditioned responding following neurotoxic damage to the posterior parietal cortex.  Behavioral Neuroscience, 119, 1580-1587.

Chess, A.C., Keene, C.S., Wyzik, E.C., and Bucci, D.J. (2005) Stimulus processing and associative learning in Wistar and WKHA rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 119, 772-780.

Zhao, H., Bucci, D.J., Weltzin, M., and Drew, K.L. (2004) Effects of aversive stimuli on learning and memory in arctic ground squirrels. Behavioural Brain Research, 151, 219-224.

Burwell, R.D., Bucci, D.J., Sanborn, M.R., and Jutras, M.J. (2004) Perirhinal and postrhinal contribution to remote memory for context. Journal of Neuroscience, 24, 11023-11028.

Bucci, D.J. and Burwell, R.D. (2004) Deficits in attentional orienting following damage to postrhinal or perirhinal cortex. Behavioral Neuroscience, 118, 1117-1122.

Burwell, R.D., Saddoris, M.P., Bucci, D.J., and Wiig, K.A. (2004) Corticohippocampal contributions to spatial and contextual learning. Journal of Neuroscience, 24, 3826-3836.

Bucci, D.J., Saddoris, M.P., and Burwell, R.D. (2002) Damage to Postrhinal or Perirhinal Cortex Impairs Performance of a Contextual Fear Discrimination. Behavioral Neuroscience, 116(3), 479-488.

Bucci, D.J., Phillips, R.G., and Burwell, R.B. (2000) Contributions of postrhinal and perirhinal cortices to contextual information processing. Behavioral Neuroscience, 114(5), 882-894.

Bucci, D.J., Conley, M.C., and Gallagher, M. (1999) Thalamic and basal forebrain cholinergic connections of the rat posterior parietal cortex. NeuroReport, 10(5), 941-945.

Baxter, M.G., Bucci, D.J., Holland, P.C., and Gallagher, M. (1999) Impairments in conditioned stimulus processing and conditioned responding after combined selective removal of hippocampal and neocortical cholinergic input. Behavioral Neuroscience, 113(3), 486-495.

Bucci, D.J., Holland, P.C., and Gallagher, M. (1998) Removal of cholinergic input to rat posterior parietal cortex disrupts incremental processing of conditioned stimuli. Journal of Neuroscience, 18(19), 8038-8046.

Bucci, D.J., Rosen, D.L., and Gallagher, M. (1998) Effect of age on pilocarpine-induced c-fos expression in rat hippocampus and cortex. Neurobiology of Aging, 19(3), 227-232.

Baxter, M.G., Bucci, D.J., Sobel, T.J., Gorman, L.K., and Gallagher, M. (1996) Intact spatial learning following lesions of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons. NeuroReport, 7, 1417-1420.

Chiba, A.A., Bucci, D.J., Holland, P.C., and Gallagher, M. (1995) Basal forebrain cholinergic lesions disrupt increments but not decrements in conditioned stimulus processing. Journal of Neuroscience, 15(11), 7315-7322.

Baxter, M.G., Bucci, D.J., Gorman, L.K., Wiley, R.G., and Gallagher, M. (1995) Selective immunotoxic lesions of basal forebrain cholinergic cells: Effects on learning and memory in rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 109(4), 714-722.

Morrow, A.L., Devaud, L.L., Bucci, D.J., and Smith, F.D. (1995) GABA_A and NMDA receptor subunit mRNA expression in ethanol dependent rats. Alcohol and Alcoholism, Supp(2), 91-97.

Bucci, D.J., Chiba, A.A., and Gallagher, M. (1995) Spatial learning in male and female Long-Evans rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 109(1), 180-183.

Review Articles & Chapters

Bucci, D.J. (2008) Posterior parietal cortex: An interface between attention and learning? Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, doi:10.1016/j.nlm.2008.07.004 (review article)

Potter, A.S., Newhouse, P.N., and Bucci, D.J. (2006) Central nicotinic cholinergic systems: A role in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder? Behavioural Brain Research, 175, 201-211.

Burwell, R.D., Bucci, D.J., Wiig, K.A., Saddoris, M.P., and Sanborn, M.R. (2002) Experimental lesions of the parahippocampal region in rats.  In: The Parahippocampal Region, Organization and Role in Cognitive Functions (M.P. Witter and F.G. Wouterlood, eds.).

Gallagher, M., Gill, T.M., Baxter, M.G., and Bucci, D.J. (1994) The development of neurobiological models for cognitive decline in aging. Seminars in the Neurosciences, 6(6), 351-358.

Articles in Preparation

Keene, C.S. and Bucci, D.J. Damage to the retrosplenial cortex produces specific impairments in spatial working memory. Learning and Memory (to be submitted December 2007)

Keene, C.S., Cormier, J.E., and Bucci, D.J. Effects of retrosplenial cortex damage on stimulus processing and associative learning.

MacLeod, J.E. and Bucci, D.J. NMDA receptors mediate the effects of surprise-induced changes in attention on learning.

Keene, C.S. and Bucci, D.J. Neurotoxic lesions of retrosplenial cortex disrupt both foreground and background context conditioning.

Chess, A.C. and Bucci, D.J. Deficits in contextual but not cue-specific fear conditioning after treatment with l-kynurenine.

Keene, C.S. and Bucci, D.J. Cognitive functions of the retrosplenial cortex. (review article)

Bucci, D.J. Contributions of rodent posterior parietal cortex to associative learning. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory.  (review article)

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